GAVRAEL *** “I thought I lost you.” She said as I held her close. I was so relieved to feel her breath on my skin, her touch, the beat of her heart. But something was missing, I was just too distracted to immediately figure it out. “Gav, there are so many things we don’t know. Things we don’t understand. We need to find answers. My grandmother tried to warn me about this but I never really understood what she was trying to tell me till now. Did she ever tell you anything?” She asked me and I was confused. Why will her dead grandmother tell me anything? Had she seen the woman when her soul left her body and was now confusing the dead with the living? “Why will she tell me anything? I never met her. From what I know, she died long before I awakened.” I replied to her. “It’s a long story. My grandmother was alive until a while ago, you met her, talked to her. But after she died, she was somehow erased from everyone’s memory. What matters is that she was trying to tell me that we we
ADAIRA***“I am not a witch.” I said and he grabbed my throat.He was livid, his red irises burning with rage. Whenever he was like this, I could never get through to him.“Then what explanation do you have for what you just did?” He asked as he grabbed my hair.I tried to free myself but I couldn’t move, he was using his power on me. And I had no explanation for what just happened, I had no idea what I did or how I did it. Same way I had no idea what had tried to suck my soul from me and how he was even able to bring me back. There are so many strange things to consider, how did he expect me to have answers to this one.“I… d.don’t…”I could barely breathe so I don’t know how he expected me to reply to him. And without our bond, we couldn’t communicate through our minds.“Let’s go pay your parents a visit. If you don’t know, I’m sure they do. Or maybe you’ll tell me the truth when they’re close enough for me to snap their necks.” He said with a menacing growl and my eyes widened in
GAVRAEL***I could understand everything more clearly now. Adaira keeps denying that she’s a witch, but she has to be. There is no other explanation for her use of powers. I had mine because of my demon half, she must also be a hybrid. That was why she was fated to me, why her soul could match mine. Or maybe she wasn’t fated to me at all, maybe it was all a trick by one of her ancestors. If she won’t tell me the truth, I will get it out of her one way or the other. I had to know if what I felt for her was real, or if it was just an illusion planted in my mind by one of the sage wolves that cast my imprisonment spell. My rage was getting the better of me, but I needed it. She would only respond to force. Maybe I could trigger her powers again, force her to confess the truth to me. How could she so cruelly be a part of this? How did they even accomplish this? She hadn’t been born when they imprisoned me, how did they bind my soul to hers when she was centuries from being born? Shouldn’
ADAIRA***My mind was reeling. I couldn’t fathom all the information my brain was receiving at once. I couldn’t understand why I was in my father’s arms, but not for an embrace because his intent was to harm and maybe kill me.“F.father… what are y.you do.doing?” I asked as I tried to speak despite the claws deep in my neck.“I am not your father, you bitch. Your weak minded father has been gone for years. And you’re so weak that you didn’t even notice my presence. The only person who had a suspicion was your mother, and that was only because of the damn mate bond she had with your father. It took nearly all of my power to create a bond between us that would mimic it so she would be at ease. You ruined all my plans! You should have just mated that bastard Alpha like I told you to.”Thinking back, I guess it made a little sense why my father suddenly became hostile towards us. Most times he seemed calm, then other times, he would act like he was a different person, become so mean and
GAVRAEL *** There was no thought in my head, only rage. The idiot before me was obviously too proud to exercise caution, which was why he had the audacity to step away from Adaira, thinking he could take me. He insists that I’m weak, but he didn’t realise that the only thing keeping him alive was the fact that he had my mate in his arms. Without her, I will make mincemeat out of him. I didn’t even have to expend much energy to freeze him on the spot. I was in front of him in the next second and my hand went through his chest to grab his heart the same way he wanted to kill Adaira. “No one touches what is mine and lives to tell the tale.” I said in his face as he started to choke on his blood. “This body is just a shell, brother. Its death means nothing. We will meet again, and I will kill you.” He said and I growled as I ripped out his heart. “NOOOOO!” I heard a scream and then Adaira’s mother ran towards me. I thought she wanted to attack me but she just fell to the ground besid
ADAIRA~Numb. That was the only word that could describe my life and my state of mind at the moment. I just felt numb. Staring at my parent’s lifeless bodies should have made me react in some way, maybe cry or scream, but I just felt like my emotions had been detached from their original position and were now floating away. Gavrael picked me up and carried me, then I felt light headed for a split second before we appeared in his room. He seemed to understand that I had no words right now, so he didn’t speak, he just took me to the bathroom. We were both already naked so it was easier to just get us both into the shower and wash the dirt off us. Then he carried me to his bed. I lay beside him while he stroked my hair and nuzzled my neck.“I’ve had your parents moved away from the front of the cell house. Tomorrow, you can decide to bury or cremate them.” He said to me.He must have mind linked one of his pack mates to do the task. I appreciated it, even though I didn’t say anything to
ADAIRA**I had weird dreams. Dreams of wars and death that seemed more like memories I have lived through or will live through in the future. In every one of these dreams, I saw a different version of me, with white hair and white eyes. I saw my grandmother again, she was warning me to hurry, telling me that we were running out of time. I tried to ask her questions but I could not do so in my dream, it was like there was a barrier between us and she kept being pulled away from me and out of my reach.I woke up with a slight headache then discovered that it wasn’t because of my dreams. Since our mate bond has been restored, I could feel the emotions of Gavrael’s pack members. They all seemed to be excited and restless like they were preparing for something and the pull of feeling all of it at once was what was giving me a headache. I usually block out everyone but I hadn’t done so after the marking last night. I always closed off this part of me that was bonded to his pack because I r
ADAIRA~I didn’t even have the strength to leave the room. Tamika came in about an hour after Gavrael left to attend to me. She made me get up to bathe and though I wanted to remain in the room, I left it for mine. I didn’t want to be there when Gavrael returned. My grandfather came in much later to visit me after Tamika couldn’t get me to eat anything. She must have been the one to call him. Seeing him made the tears I had managed to keep at bay return.“Oh Ady.” He said as he joined me on the bed.I turned to face him as he wrapped his arms around me and began to cry. He was just a reminder that it was just the two of us left now.“It will be okay, child. I’m here now.” He said as he stroked my hair, even though I felt his own sorrow.“They’re gone.”“I’m here. I’m still here. We still have each other.” He said as he kissed my forehead.I didn’t reply to him, just held him closer and soaked up all the comfort he was offering, the comfort that my own mate couldn’t even stay behind t